Category: Backpacking
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Havalon Piranta review
This one is pretty simple. The Piranta is a light (1.4 oz with blade installed, .15 ounces for each additional blade in the wrapper) folding knife which takes removable, replaceable blades. The blades are thin, and very sharp. I’m far from a knife expert, but I like to think I know what I’m doing. I…
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2013 B&P Holiday Gift guide: An Island
Islands comes in many different forms. What they have in common is also their primary virtues: isolation from everyday life, and time alone with something new. When it comes to backpacking, Isle Royale is my favorite island. Getting out into the center of Lake Superior is a costly nuisance, which is how traveling to an…
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The big one
The weekend started out in an ignominious fashion, when I got our car stuck Friday afternoon out at my favorite backwoods target range. Front wheel drive doesn’t do you much good on ice if you back into a downhill pullout. I spent an hour in the dark chipping at the ice with a entrenching tool…
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2013 B&P Holiday Gift guide: A big ridge
Give someone you love a walk along a big, rugged ridge this year. Seeing things is important. If backpacking is too your liking, the recently proposed Wind River High Route looks like a good option. With Alan Dixon and Don Wilson’s extensive beta, including waypoints, the hike seems like a felicitous introduction to off-trail backpacking…
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Green grass for the future
The grass is always greener, right? In northwest Montana, it’s now dark by 5pm, mid-elevations are starting to fill in with snow, and roads are closing. For me, the antithesis is four months ago, when temps were kind, there was more daylight for hiking than my feet could take, the country was as open as…
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Introducing the Gossamer Gear Tamarisk
I’m pleased to make the world premier of the new Gossamer Gear Tamarisk pack here on Bedrock & Paradox. I’d like to thank Gossamer Gear for allowing me to do so, and for integrating my feedback into the design, which is a very new direction for them. Named after the tenacious, ubiquitous invasive plant found…
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There is something about the desert
Examining my photos brings contempt. Clear dawn air shining through snow-dusted larches has been this past week filtered through a shadow of indifference. I keep looking back, in books, old things I wrote long ago, most of all in memory. I want to find it. Whatever it is. Abbey was right. There is something about…
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Hiking with Ropes
M photo. First: hiking with ropes in Colorado Plateau canyons is probably the most satisfying thing you can do outside. The best parts of hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, and aid climbing are combined in an activity that’s hard enough to not just be fun, varied enough to not be monotonous, and technical enough to be…
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The South Fork of the Roost
When we lived in Utah the Robber’s Roost was one of my favorite places, and two weeks ago I was reminded that it remains so today. Driving out the sage flats as the sun sank behind the Henry Mountains I concentrated on missing rocks and not flatting our little car. Views as you traverse the…
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